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During the 1959 eruption, southwest winds blew fragments of molten lava to the forest. Some trees lost their branches and got buried by molten lava fragments. Other trees were surrounded by molten, fluid lava and burnt. When the lava cooled down and solidified, all that was left of the trees were
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that "weld themselves together into a spatter cone". Other cinders that fell farther from the eruption site had time to cool down and created a cinder blanket. It is prohibited to hike Puʻu Puaʻi.
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